Photography · · 5 min
The long walk out
Two days in the Gobi, one usable frame, and the arithmetic of patience.
Placeholder essay. The ratio never improves. You walk for two days and come back with one photograph, and the photograph is not the one you went looking for.
What changes with experience is only your tolerance for that ratio — the willingness to keep spending time on something that may produce nothing, because the alternative is producing something predictable.
The terraces in Vietnam taught the same lesson at a gentler altitude.
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